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Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 310, 13 January 1912, Page 2

In those days of keen competition and scientific knowledge, wealth conies most to those who have the energy to turn everything they handle to account. Most readers have heard of the remarkable leaning tower of Pisa, a province of Italy, built entirely of marble, and nearly 200 feet in height. It took nearly two hundred years to build. It was almost a century ago that it began to lean through a portion of the foundations giving way. A recent English paper ■says it is quite safe, and the bells in it arc still rung as heretofore. Measures have, however been taken to detect ancLregister and further tendency to tilt over. It is quite evident, that it, cannot defy for over the definitions of euclid and the deductions of Sir Isaac Newton. In what is now looked upon as a first essential in the dairying industry—the culling of cows—New Zealand farmers arid dairymen may learn considerably from the methods of the Dutch farmers. There are in Holland 98 "milk control" societies, with 2500 members and 50.000 cows tested yearly. For a society of 14 or 15 members, the cost of a herd testing association, is only £SO per annum, and the whole cost of the business is born© by the farmers, the Dutch Government not even supplying one expei t or implement. Romantic to a degree has been the career of Mr Jesse Collins, upon whom Birmingham has decided to confer the honorary freedom of that city. Ho was born in a Devonshire cottage, and knew what it was to struggle on the pitiful wages of an agricultural labourer before he made his mark. Nobody is so ready as he to tell how he went to Birmingham with a solitary livepound note ill his pocket, and started to carve out famo and fortune as a junior clerk in a firm of hardware merchants. Then ho interested himself in social reform and politics, and made tho acquaintance of Mr Joseph Chamberlain, whoso "faithful henchman," to quote the political description, ho has been for many years past. "I am absolutely opposed to any overhead system of transit for Sydney," .-aid Alderman E. Lindsay Thompson, who "h:'s been studying this, with other matters, in a six-months' trip abroad. "Overlie-td transit is noisy, dirty, unsightly, and otherwise objectionable. In Chicago 1 was tolrl by tho municipal authorities that they had notified the overhead tramway companies thar. they must run their lines umler.-yrr.ind —a stop in the right direction. In New 7ork there are both overhead lines subways, and I believe that hero also the overhead lines are to be shifted underground. And in Paris and London there arc the si'ibways. Subways are tho system for Sydney. Approaching New York, it struck me greatly how tho mail trains came into tho city along a subway under the Hudson river. Also, the New York municipal authorities won't allow steam engines to enter the city, because of the smoke nuisance. They compel the companies to put on electric engines. That's a matter we j shall have, to consider."